The first steps
As previously mentioned, the type of Integration Competency Centre that is right for you is highly dependent on how many resources your company may have now to commit to it and what suits your immediate needs. Gartner suggests that all enterprises start with as simple a model as possible, around best practices, and grow on that unless you decide right away that your company is moving forward at such a pace that a full ICC will be required.
You can start by assigning people to your ICC, and even possibly by breaking down your ICC into groups that will work on assigned tasks before moving into the stage of process establishment, where the ICC will develop and maintain strategies, standards and procedures that bring together existing IT processes in the business. Chains of communication must also be established to emphasise accountability and clearly define lines of responsibility.
“It is a scalable approach, so you would implement as much as you need to assure and manage the integrity of the project you are doing,” Sun Microsystems Gear says.
“So for example, rather that going in and reorganising the whole enterprise around SOA just for the purpose of SOA, it is a case of identifying the right strategic projects to actually take advantage of an SOA implementation. As you do this you will put in place the governance and the common operating environment capability required to support that and represent it through the whole enterprise.”
Find out more at:
http://www.informatica.com
http://www.integrationconsortium.org
http://www.hp.com
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